‘We will do everything we can to track down Jihadi John’ – Cameron

Prime Minister David Cameron has said Britain will do everything it can to track down the Islamic State killer Jihadi John, but refused to confirm the speculated identity of the militant.

Jihadi John was revealed on Thursday by the Washington Post to be
Mohammad Emwazi, a young British man from West London who was
known to British security services.

Speaking at an event in Wales on Friday, Cameron said he was
“not going to talk about specific individuals,” adding
that the security forces would be working to apprehend the
perpetrator of “heinous” crimes.

“When there are people anywhere in the world who commit
appalling and heinous crimes against British citizens, we will do
everything we can with the police, with the security services,
with all that we have at our disposal to find these people and
put them out of action.”

The Home Office had previously refused to confirm his identity
due to operational risk, claiming lives were at stake if his
identity was publicly known.

Emwazi is thought to have killed American journalist James Foley
in a video released last August.

He is further believed to have featured in the videos of the
beheadings of US journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker
David Haines, UK taxi driver Alan Henning and US aid worker
Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known as Peter.

The widow of aid worker David Haines, who was murdered by the
Islamic State militant ‘Jihadi John,’ says she wants the
terrorist caught alive, saying he does not deserve an “honorable
death.”

Speaking to the BBC, Dragana Haines said the “last
thing” she wanted for the man who killed her husband was for
him to become a martyr.

Haines’ daughter, however, said she wanted to see Emwazi with a
“bullet between his eyes.”

Following the revelation of his identity, more details of the
militant’s childhood in West London have been unearthed.

In photos discovered by the MailOnline, Emwazi is seen to be
wearing the uniform of the Church of England school he attended
in the middle-class suburb of St John’s Wood.

Born in Kuwait, childhood friends of the 27-year-old said he
spoke little English when he arrived in the UK in 1993. He was
the only Muslim pupil in his class at St Mary Magdalene Church of
England primary school in Maida Vale, West London.

He regularly attended mosque with his parents and five siblings,
as well as embracing the British culture of his classmates, one
source said.

British authorities first came into contact with Emwazi in 2009
after he was stopped during a post-graduation safari trip to
Tanzania. They claimed he had links to Somalian Islamist militant
group Al Shabab.

According to advocacy group CAGE, which was in contact with
Emwazi for two years before he disappeared, he was subsequently
denied passage to Kuwait several times. They also claim MI5 tried
to turn him into an informant.

Speaking to ITV news on Thursday, David Haines’ daughter
criticized the security services for letting Emwazi slip through
the net, saying she wanted him dead.

“There should have been more security in airports to stop
people doing that and definitely for him, obviously he’s part of
a terrorist group and is out to kill hundreds of people and it’s
not right,” Bethany Haines said

“They need to be monitoring airports more clearly. They need
to be asking more security questions. Why are people going to
Turkey and then getting a connecting flight? It’s not right. You
don’t just go to Syria on holiday,” she added.